unemployment hits a grim new high according to figures revealing a record levels of people out of work in the eurozone after french economic. fall. the u.s. military wants to carry out remote killings to take center stage by giving out accolades to soldiers operating american drugs. this being that no response from british police one week after a report revealed a shocking culture of neglect by hospital staff caused the deaths of hundreds of patients. and government demonstrations to mark the two year anniversary

of the protest movement in bahrain reportedly result in a teenager's death. you're watching live from our new center in the heart of the russian capital it's two am in moscow good to have your company. one out of every four greeks including an overhaul for the country's young people are out of work and that's according to the latest unemployment figures with the job loss rate more than double the european average form a great pay of the center left panhellenic socialist movement i have a kylie says that the die situation is a result of the failed economic rescue. well it seems that it's getting worse not better this is the famous rescue of greece from the european union they say that will reach thirty percent of unemployment it means that while thousands of people

lose their jobs every day in greece this is starting to become a humanitarian crisis and i think it's something that we no one expected to see in the european union you see extreme poverty you see people that they tried to get a plate of food from the church we have two hundred fifty thousand people every day trying to get to the church to find food we're talking about the young people that they want to find a job in greece the trying to leave the country we're talking about people that don't have access to primary health services and i would talking about things that no one expected to see it seems that the plan for growth is taking two margin too long to take place so something has to change i do believe that germany has stuck to this plan and doesn't want to admit the mistakes where we listen every day of

things that could have big been better for greece if the plan was better if they had made better estimation about what would happen but this is something that's not only numbers it's one thousand people human beings in the european union that lose their jobs every day this is creating a humanitarian crisis inside the euro zone. meanwhile some have been driven to increasingly desperate measures due to the ongoing crisis across the continent a french man committed suicide by setting himself on fire there are jobs and in the city of knowledge the forty three year old has been refused unemployment benefits in the country which is suffering its highest jobless rate for thirteen years. has the details but said it reports that he had actually set a letter to some journalists saying that he was going to do this this week so the police had said that they had sort of surveillance outside that employment agency but they didn't manage to see him he was already on fire they said he had entered through a side street and therefore this tragedy had happened now the man did this after

finding out that he is no longer eligible for those unemployment benefits and this is not the first time it has happened in france in august we know that a fifty year old jobless man had done the same and this is a worrying sign for france for a country that has seen its unemployment rising for the past twenty months and this after a president had been elected on a campaign of jobs and growth so we haven't seen any improvements on this front so a lot has declared twenty thirteen as a battle for jobs he said that by the end of the year there would be he would be creating jobs for the french people however statistics show that by midyear the number is set to rise and let's not forget that more than three million french people this number does not include people who have quit the unemployment program because they simply have exhausted all their benefits similar to the case of the man who had just burned himself and also those young people who had never registered or those who are in part time jobs if we look at the trend we've seen a lot of suicides and attempted suicides in countries like greece one of the

hardest hit euro zone countries because of this eurozone crisis there's a general feeling of a still in the country a lot of people going out in protest we've also heard of stories of suicides in italy another hard hit country so if we're looking at the trend that's happening in europe we hope it does not continue but we could see a lot more of expressions of dissatisfaction. the pentagon once those fighting us was from a fall for me in the spotlight defense secretary leon panetta has announced the creation of a distinguished warfare medal it will be handed out to joystick world and drone pilots who wage their battles without setting foot in combat zones. explains my colleague research what it takes to get the award so you're cygnus here you have a joystick and you point click and they get an award essentially that's all it takes to get it to get a medal which is supposed to rank higher than the bronze medal which is given out to people who actually perform combat duty but according to the pentagon criteria

i'm going to cite it here it will be recognizing a single act that directly affects the combat operation does not involve an act of valor and warrants that award higher than the bronze medal so instead of having to go to the front line and risk the extreme bloody violence there you can just sit in your recliner with a joystick and maybe a couple to know for example and just wage war from about a thousand miles away. perhaps there is a there perhaps there's a basic knowledge of the territory somewhere in the border between afghanistan and pakistan that's involved but let's compare it just sitting around basically just sitting at a base to doing something like something that was done by sergeant william stacey in two thousand and eleven he received a bronze medal a bronze a bronze star which is considered to rank below this medal that we're talking about now what he did was receiving fire along with his squad from ten or twelve and we fighters from five separate fighting positions though outnumbered stacy in his squad held back numerous flanking attempts and accurate enemy grenades and large

caliber fire he was hailed for unquestionably saving the lives of his marines this is association from his award citation and he actually died in combat in january of two thousand and eleven so again this man apparently did a lot less than was a person sitting at an army base and pointing a mouse and clicking on the. territory's time. in the middle east you talk about superstars of bronze stars which as you say have now been running the men awarded with those they must have been praised for some very heroic deeds that the colonel you're talking about here yes the sergeant that was in question was actually doing something on the ground right now we're talking about drone strikes we're talking about very questionable by a lot of institutions specially human rights organizations that practice of protecting the united states and the world from terrorism as the pentagon the you know you don't own drone strikes. strikes where they target someone via satellite

and via this brilliant camera on the drone they never hit civilians they only hit militants right that is the official version but they even had they had to change that which was which they have been rigged by them i mean the american officials the pentagon officials they stuck by that rhetoric for years until i think roughly two thousand and six when they had to acknowledge that yes indeed at least the best half of the people who are being killed by the drone strikes are actually innocent bystanders in fact there has been a research done by various universities there was a study from from the new york university school of law as well as stanford university law school and they have said that roughly all of those killed only two percent are actually high importance targets that is those are the only two percent of people who are being killed are known terrorists ninety eight percent happen to be whoever it is very very disturbing numbers numbers are disturbing and i'm like

to go back and remind you that now people who are doing this and who are basically responsible for it are going to be awarded a medal that is going to rank higher than somebody who actually laid down his life in the line of duty. artie's arena girlish her talking to my colleague rory sushi a little earlier well there are no awards for cyber spying in the u.s. and just yet but big brother is still watching the largest defense contractor in the u.s. develop software that can predict people's behavior by using social networks we report on that in a few minutes. security is tight in libya ahead of the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled the gadhafi regime there are growing calls for protests and the threat of possible street violence reports say it's really an arms and troops are arriving in tripoli former m i five agent annie marshawn says it's naive to think western powers want to support democracy in libya . the people who invest a lot of hope in the arab spring i think now they're beginning to realize the harsh reality that

a lot of it was backed by the west and the west wants to strip their countries of the mineral wealth from missing the spillover into other areas like mali and niger as well and this is all part of biggest thing between us wanting to secure the minerals losses of africa generally and stop china getting them so in terms of democracy in arab springs now you know i think it's very naive to think that that's what the west is trying to help these countries to achieve we've seen an absolute mess left behind by the nato invasion of libya which is what happened two years ago let's not mince words and that was problematic on so many levels not just the international legal level where suddenly aggressive war could be justified as humanitarian intervention even though it stabilized an entire country and results in many more deaths than could be prevented. but we're also looking at a situation now where the country has lost its stability where there are reports coming out from independent journalists about militias still holding great swathes of the country and their power where we have competing fairly fundamentalist

politicians police school groups as well fighting over their territory without any of the promised ability wealth and democratic values that were suggested when the nato went in so it's become such a mess and so many levels. the second anniversary of the uprising in bahrain a teenager is killed in protests two years. pro-democracy still being ignored. and the picture of the still no watch following an independent report into hundreds of deaths in the u.k. . coming up after this break.

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continuing the news this hour. a week after shocking revelations of needless deaths in a british hospital there are still no signs of action the family and friends of hundreds of patients who died due to neglect a calling for criminal action to be taken against those responsible and the former chief of another hospital says he was paid half a million pounds not to talk about a similar situation elsewhere r.t. sara firth's been following the scandal. in the latest twist we've seen an n.h.s. whistleblower come out and say that he was forced to quit after he'd raise concerns about issues that he said endangered patient safety but this latest revelation comes on the back of the francis report that we saw last week now that was looking into the scandal that happened at mit stuff which hospital where it's thought more

than a thousand patients could have died between two thousand and five and two thousand and eight as a result of inhumane and degrading treatment warrant food stuff and hospital in september of two cents to date is just a disaster people you know typically you know stuff they're looking for one of. those that was left. when she believes the shoes on the floor we've been there to breakfast time before that so we would describe to look. in the home to see still seems. to be she had to go through what she went through the n.h.s. whistleblower he says that he was confronted with many of the same decisions and concerns that were raised at mit started to hospital now he was the head of one of the hospitals a united lincolnshire hospital he was facing many of the same problems he claims

the government targets that he refused to meet the fear that it would endanger patient safety meant that he then had to quit and was subject to a so-called secret gag to keep him quiet of the whistleblower who spoke out gary who could talk to the culture there and oppression and certainly it seems that a lot of these problems have been going on i think many many years now i'm joined by the head one of the members of the n.h. a political party in new york political party that's been formed people within the health care profession and they're all very concerned about what's happening. in the n.h.s. right now when the mid staffordshire scandal with revealed very much the respite from the government was that this was an exceptional case that this was if not a one of it was particularly bad and yet we're seeing one of the hospitals being investigated and it seems that nothing shocks just keep on coming isa price that this no i'm not surprised at this wild stuff the trip was particularly bad there

i've always been in the n.h.s. while most of the current been fantastic over the years in such a complicated organization and such a large organization there will be such incidents and there have been for many years the real problem is that the n.h.s. and the government do not seem to be able to learn from the old inquiries that have being from thirty years ago the hospital advisory service would report and i think the same things are still going on now because they're the chief executive of the n.h.s. they even nicholson to resign have so far been resisted he says that he has nothing to be as saying the of and that during his time providing this is down to systematic they years so of course the people who are campaigning have been calling very hard for his resignation say by he has resisted that a teenager has reportedly been killed in clashes between police and protesters in

bahrain likely be at the gulf state is marking two years since the start of its own uprising the demonstrators say their demands to end discrimination and release all political prisoners have not been met london based bahraini activist dominic kavakeb says despite attempts to hold talks nothing is being done. we're looking at two years in which we've seen no reform we've seen nothing change i mean we started this uprising two years ago and on that day the first martyr of the uprising was killed and now two years later on the same day the fourteenth of february another teenager has been killed and this really shows and displays the lack of reform the continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets are behind it's good the dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it seems that this latest latest escalation of the security against the people is going to possibly put dine in jeopardy within the ruling family i think of course there are those who simply want to please the

international community to say look we're having this dialogue and there is not a great thing was continuing the violations on the streets the people have come out on the streets time and time again saying that they they won't go out and they said do not go home until there's reform and i think the fact that they stayed out for two years clearly proves that so the only solution is through dialogue and i think regime has to realize that. while we also keep you updated online with more stories and videos at r.t. dot com hey it was waiting for you there at the moment. real torture doesn't mean just physical pain find out on artie's websites how arabic prisoners at guantanamo were driven out of their minds by the constant playing of heavy metal music. plus canadian law enforcers allegedly use their power against those they're meant to protect an investigation claims the missing and abused indigenous girls and women were raped by mounted police more on our website.

the us president will be handed a petition calling for the release of a u.k. resident who spent over a decade behind bars at guantanamo bay prison was taken to the facility under suspicion of links with al qaeda terrorists but was cleared for release in two thousand and nine however he remains in detention but he's never been charged or tried to almost be will not a defense counsel for guantanamo prisoners says almost case is not an exception. shocker armor was sold for a bounty the united states drop of leaflets to them and offered five thousand to twenty five thousand dollars for every quote arab terrorists who would be turned in in an area where people make two hundred dollars a year that was enough as the leaflet said to feed your family for a life so any arab you found you could sell for a bounty there are about one hundred sixty people at guantanamo today about fifteen of those are people who really could be charged with war crimes like khalid shaikh

mohammed they were brought to guantanamo afterwards of there are other you know one hundred fifty or so people eighty six of them have been cleared for release and are sitting there the others are not even charged with anything or thought of to be really bad guys these are people ignored president obama faces opposition within congress and there's no doubt the people of the many republicans that pandered to fear but obama cannot let that stop him from doing justice these people need to be out shocker aamer should be out of guantanamo there is no reason for him to be there big brother may be watching every click he makes online the u.s. government's using need to find software able to predict your future behavior and locations in cyberspace however with the program only using data submitted voluntarily via social networks claims of privacy violations don't stick it out these guns if you can reports. those of you who are using social networks will find

this interesting the world's fifth largest defense contractor raytheon a multinational firm based in massachusetts came up with a software that can map out your life and be able to predict your moves your behavior based on the information that you provide on websites like facebook twitter or foursquare the guardian has obtained a video. where a raytheon staffer explains and shows how it works the program is called someone already branded it for spice just a few clicks and it creates diagrams charts maps showing who you've communicated with most online your associations and relationships places where you check in most you know over twenty five million people use this app called foursquare to alert friends of their whereabouts so the program uses that and also the photos that people take on smartphones often have led to today and longitude details automatically embedded in them so this riot program at a quick or two can analyze all that data and as the gentleman in the video claims

it can roughly predict where to find you at a given time and potentially your behavior based on your interests so this firm that developed the software a major defense contractor has acknowledged that the technology was shared with the u.s. government as part of a joint research and development effort to help build the national security system capable of analyzing quote unquote trillions of entities from cyber space that reminds me of the conversation that i had with william binney a mathematician a spy software expert who had worked for the national security agency for decades and who told us that the government is spying on people on a much larger scale and building social networks is part of it take a listen they were building social networks. who who's communicating and with whom inside this country so that your entire social network of everybody of every us citizen was being compiled. over time so they're taking it from one company alone

or roughly three hundred twenty million records a day. that's over time that that's probably cumulated up to close to twenty trillion over the years mr binney blew the whistle on this n.s.a. program saying it is a blatant violation of the constitution but with this right software one can argue that they can see information that individuals have already chosen to make public they put it out there and most people know that privacy safeguards that for example facebook provides don't hold water really and yet people truth to share so if you don't want someone to be able to map out your entire life and to be able to potentially predict your behavior stop checking in everywhere and turn up location services on your phone or maybe you don't want that in that case no worries some other stories from around the globe for you and one of the world's most celebrated sportsman the story of his being charged with murder after his girlfriend was shot dead at his home the man known as the blade runner made history last year after becoming the first double amputee to compete in the olympic games in south african

is believed to have told police that he shot reeva steenkamp by accident thinking she was an intruder. several hundred protesters took to the streets of berlin in a bid to prevent the eviction of a number of families from their homes riot police blocked roads and pepper sprayed activists outraged by skyrocketing rent prices fifteen people have reportedly been arrested there's been a long running debate over rising rents in berlin leading to the displacement of residents from the city center. at least twenty three people have been killed in several separate incidents in northwest pakistan eleven died when a suicide bomber targeted a police post in the hanged do district a roadside bomb also claimed the lives of seven and ten taliban militia and five suicide bombers that died in a failed attack at a police outpost in the city of meanwhile pakistani politicians called for peace talks with the taliban as the country's main parties met in islamabad.

underground says its military commander has been killed in syria by the rebels fighting against president assad iran the says his son course nervous was a member of the country's elite revolutionary guard and was killed on the highway as he was returning to lebanon from damascus syrian rebels have repeatedly accused the islamic republic of sending fighters to back assad in an attempt to crush the twenty two month uprising a charge iran has repeatedly denied. so well coming up after the break we take a closer look at the gun control debate in america stay with us on r.t. . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you

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love your neighbor how do you love your friends love the teachers love students and that will that will decrease kind may not necessarily and diminish kinds of incidents. and this is our first task as a society keeping our children safe this is how we will be judged and then gramps. good way from. grant said i think there should be some changes we should learn from what happened at sandy hook i feel really bad in the month since twenty precious children and six brave adults were violently taken from us at sandy hook elementary more than the.